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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 2 | February 2018
InNews
La Télé Chooses
Harmonic Playout
USA / CHE: La Télé, a broadcast
news channel based in Switzerland,
has deployed a comprehensive live
and scheduled playout solution
on Harmonic's Spectrum X media
server and Polaris Play automation
to control scheduled playout
operations, with Aveco automation
for live news coverage.
Harmonic claims that the solution
increases workflow efficiency and
reliability for the delivery of highquality live and recorded HD video,
enabling La Télé to deliver a rich
on-air presentation to its viewers.
NAGRA Secures
CANAL+ UHD
CHE / FRA: NAGRA's content
protection
solution
NAGRA
CONNECT is securing CANAL+
Group brand-new 4K Ultra HD
service which launched recently.
With this solution, NAGRA ensures
content protection via satellite
broadcast, OTT or within the home
in addition to access control for
user authorised by CANAL+.
The announcement follows the
extension of both companies'
content protection collaboration in
September 2017.
CANAL+ Group is the leading
provider of pay-TV services and
the top multi-channel platform and
distributor in France.
Live Update
VariCam LT
USA: Panasonic has announced a
firmware upgrade to its VariCam
LT 4K camera that sets it up for
live and 'near live' multi-cam use
within concerts, events, TV shows
and corporate productions.
Set to be released at the end
of February 2018, the Version
6 firmware upgrade sees the
camera gain a new shading mode
alongside tally and return video
management.
Full control of the cameras is also
possible from Panasonic's AKHRP1000 remote control panel.
Vislink In US$1M Order
From AMP VISUAL TV
x
G Technology's Vislink business has
received an order valued in excess
of US$1 million from France-based AMP
VISUAL TV.
A leading European provider of
OB services, the order
from
AMP
includes
Vislink HCAM 4K UHD
systems, UltraReceivers,
L1700's, L2174's and
FocalPoint
camera
control equipment to
provide wireless camera
transmission.
The
hardware
will
be deployed at many
events
across
the
world,
including
the
PyeongChang 2018 Winter
Olympics in South Korea,
the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and the
2018 24 Hour LeMans race.
Stephane Alessandri, Head of RF
Department & International
Operations at AMP, stated:
"Our
recent
further
investment into Vislink
hardware builds upon a
long relationship between
the two companies. This
new hardware will be used
in the future to underpin
our global productions in
delivering the very
Vislink HCAM 4K/
UHD system
América TeVé Expands
Output With PlayBox
A
mérica TeVé, America's largest
independent Spanish language
television station, has invested in
three four-channel PlayBox Technology
Production AirBox Neo servers as the
core of a major technical upgrade at its
studio headquarters in Miami.
"We needed a dedicated playout
system for each of three studios used
to handle fast-paced content for
live television shows," said América
TeVé Director of Engineering Gerd
Rieger. "We produce more live shows
than any other Spanish language TV
broadcaster in the USA: about 10 hours
of content every weekday.
"Production AirBox Neo was the
logical choice as it can handle four
PlayBox AirBox Neo
best in wireless video, now including
low-latency 4K UHD. We have also
made a major investment into Vislink's
FocalPoint camera control system,
which we look forward to deploying in
2018."
Vislink and AMP have a long history
of working together, dating back to
the first iterations of wireless radio
cameras. AMP has already invested
heavily in Vislink L1700's and L2174
platforms.
Vislink
UltraReceiver
channels in a single server and is far
more efficient than the legacy thirdparty single-channel servers we were
using previously. 'Feature-rich' may
be an over-used expression but it is
certainly true of Production AirBox
Neo given its built in multi-viewer,
playlist editor, MOS integration
options, VDCP and interfacing to thirdparty devices.
"All three servers are located in
our production control rooms and
operated remotely via automation
links. Our studio team like the intuitive
Production AirBox Neo user interface
and our engineers appreciate the
reliability."
Based in Miami, América TeVé is
an independent Spanish language
television broadcaster with on-air
distribution and cable across Florida,
Tampa, Orlando, New York and Puerto
Rico.